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@lordbryan76

Who is still listening in 2023

@robertriver786

Favorite Springsteen album ever since it came out in 9/1982. Can't believe it's been over 40 years. So many amazing songs on this album: Used Cars, Highway Patrolman, Nebraska, Johnny 99, Reason to Beleive.....

@joycebunn6045

Great thanks never heard some of them love Bruce❤❤❤❤

@eugenebeck6593

The stars in this old video is incredible.

This album was a demo. A DEMO. Recorded in a motel room. Springsteen’s absolute best.

@marting4597

Only Bruce could do it. THE BOSS.

@sumboi2321

Jonny Cash’s cover: the story as it unfolds
Bruce’s version: reminiscing about Frankie’s life at his funeral

@paulchisholm3305

Somber, dark and cold album but its magnificent. Tracks detailing the human condition! Bruce is a modern day genius 👏
Glad I heard him at 15yrs old as I have been listening to him ever since.

@bobyoung8099

Grew up with Springsteen. My brother and I love him. 2023 he got sick. I’m so lucky he made it through. We get to spend more time together. We’re nothing like the good guy and bad guy in the story but this song always chokes me up. Who are you if you don’t love your brother?

@BruceGaslightAnthemFallon

I really like this movie, Sean Penn and Viggo Mortensen are up there with the best ever. But I have been a spectator to this story since I was 12 years old. I have seen the brothers laughing and drinking for 35 years now, there was just no way that Sean Penn could make this movie better than the one that’s been playing in my head a million times.

Bruce is an incredible artist, he paints pictures in my head again and again and I just can’t look away…they are the best ever❤

@Dan1elVera

Nebraska: one of the greatest albums in the history of modern music.

@justthetruth1

Johnny99 a masterpiece

@clydefralick4038

true statement...

@itsdavers3441

Johnny99 Agreee, this is an amazing album with some amazinh storys

@123ubuntu666

Recorded on a 4-track too.

@tykucuk836

Only set of comments on YouTube where everyone agrees hahaha

@vitordragon

"The Indian Runner"... This is a movie by Sean Penn based on Bruce´s song! Great album, great song, great poet and great movie. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.

@willythegman5509

Thank you

@gordongalloway6361

Anyone know how to find this movie?

@vitordragon

@Gordon Galloway Maybe Amazon? Have you tried it?

@meone5112

@Gordon Galloway "The Indian Runner".

@julienbellin8538

Greeting from Los Angeles (born in São Paulo; however, the year this album came out). Thanks for posting the name of the movie, I was wanting to watch it.

@V8Deuce

James Intveld driving the '67 El Camino - He's an amazing singer, song writer, and talented musician.

@napoliansolo7865

Never heard this song before. I am stunned. Thank you Bruce.

@Taru1blm

It’s in Amazon’s new show “Outer Range”. It’s pretty good.

@benlaubscher6371

Listen to Johnny cash original

@AmandaJohnson-yl6xc

Watch this move the Indian runner it's awesome

@napoliansolo7865

@Amanda Johnson Thanks, I'll check it out.

@AttentionDivision

@ben laubscher Cash’s version is a cover of this Springsteen song

@bernardhossmoto

The best album of all times. Video looks like from the Cohens!

@coffeydavid1

For this song to only have 700k views is astounding. Bruce reveals ugly truths as well as the good stuff. The damage Vietnam/Korea did to America's sons should never be forgotten. The character's protagonist was a pure metaphor for the evil of war. As Afghanistan failure has proven, it never ends.

@annshepherd3543

My husband loves this song. It reminds him of his brother. Their lives were so different but still so close. Held together by the bonds of brotherly love. Rest in Peace ERIC ! Always remembered and forever Loved.

@jw7073

That's not a good thing. The song is about a man who lets his brother get away with crimes that no one else would, and it eventually leads to his brother murdering an innocent man. The song aims to portray the man's thoughts but it does not condone his actions. Letting someone get away with horrible things because they are family is an awful mentality and leads to pain and suffering for those caught on the wrong side of someone's actions who have gone unchecked. Always keep those close to you in check, or someone will get hurt.

@sampeacock3664

@J W music is unique because it’s different for different people

@khoehl1525

So sorry 2 hear about Eric.

@Natalie1281998

I remember hearing this song for the first time. It was late at night in the summer of 2012, just me and my little red iPod, and I was just letting my thoughts wonder until this song came on. And I remember it made me stop and really listen to the lyrics, and I couldn't believe that as beautiful as the story was it wasn't more popular. The next day, I discovered the movie The Indian Runner, based on this song, which was great, but not quite as much as the song that inspired it. After growing up with his music, that was the summer that I really became a true Springsteen fan.

@nomanmcshmoo8640

+Natalie Johnston Since you enjoy this so much: Look up the film "Badlands" from 1973. It stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. When your finished with the movie...listen to the song Nebraska, the title track to this album. It's a true treat for the mind and your ears.

@Natalie1281998

+noman mcshmoo I'll have to check that out! I love the Nebraska album, so it would be great to get an even deeper look into it.

@manoj_more4949

True

@qklee11

Yes the words the lyrics make you think

@MiguelPerescorpio1982

The movie could be better, but the music video is perfect!

@sunnyvale3942

Im 14 and i thank my dad for always playin the boss 

@johnlenhardt3789

If this sing doesn't give you chills you just have no soul

@amirkhalid5449

This song was adapted into a film, The Indian Runner, written and directed by Sean Penn. All the scenes in this video are from that film.

@isabelsanchez3807

The clean soul of America THANK YOU Bruce masterpice.Can" t to see you in Ferrara Tour 2023 Parco urbano Ferrara

@beethornton6802

I got a little brother looking at 25 to life right now. He called me the other day, needing 500$. What could I do? took a loan out against my jeep and sent the $. I'll always do anything I can for that kid.

@chancieowens3538

Prison sucks bro 500 won't do a lot in the joint but at the same time it will perform a miracle.

@henryschroeder749

Brent you are a real brother. Jesus is on your side

@jomcmenamin4579

Brent Thornton. What has happened did he go to jail ?

@rustyshackleford9115

Brent Thornton. You're a good man. You did what you had to do for your brother. It doesn't make any difference what your brother did. Like you said what else could I do? Nothing bro. By the way I was the cop in my family. I was straight. But the moral of the story is folks don't hate family just because they're in prison.

@markwest182

Brent Thornton I don’t have a brother but if I did I know with out a doubt I would do the same thing. “Nothings better than blood on blood “ you’re a good brother!

@mikeeihusen5194

The brothers relationship is just like my brother and I.
Kinda EMOTIONAL song.

@swagalicious34

What an absolute masterpiece

@ccorz001

"When it's your brother, sometimes you look the other way."

@user-sh5mh5hn6d

I was deeply moved!!!
timeless beautiful song!!!
Nebraska is great album

@kathyquinn1617

I have a brother who died too young and this song makes me weep everytime I hear it.

@ironstarofmordian7098

The dude who does the cop in this video is actually a great actor. Also: You the Man Bruce!

@labrooy61

This is the song that turned me into a Springsteen fan. I have now been to three of his shows and just love all his songs but this one still resonates with me.

@sladjanaristic6405

Kralju fantastična pesma koju je najbolje dočarao tvoj glasi tvoja muzika.

@johnnyM809

Yet another Springsteen masterpiece

@johnnyM809

+jaf71965  I love Jonny Cash's cover of this song...but Bruce wrote it so it's Bruce's masterpiece, yet another one.

@DashDarrenger

+jaf71965 I agree Johnny Cash's cover is better.

@JJosephS1

I loved the Born in the USA album when it came out and I was 15. I wanted to discover more of Bruce so I bought the Nebraska album. I loved it especially Atlantic City, My Father’s House, and this song. I memorized the lyrics and figured out how to strum a guitar to go along. My friends love it, especially after a few cold ones. You know you’ve written a piece of Americana classic when Johnny Cash covers it.

@marcopacino5539

Genius - One of my favourite Springsteen songs, one of my favourite movies, and definitely my favourite Viggo Mortensen performance!

@Aimee03110

What movie is this?

@slobodanilkic8136

@@aimeefinch3110 The Indian Runner

@racrity

This song just keeps my crying everytime i hear it. It's so amazing how Bruce that got magik to translate songs into feelings, and at the same time, make feel like the protagonist of every story he tells.

@spookrockcity

Indian runner was a great film

@ruthdixon7807

great storytelling, so heartbreaking.

@yourzei

Bruce is the best, he writes and sings about people and life like no one else does it

@WonsPhreely

I agree, the story telling is exquisite. Watching this or just listening to this always makes me tear up. I write songs now, and Bruce is always the bench mark, here's me attempting story telling in song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b85V2p4puw&index=2&t=0s&list=PLWehun4PmMf_00nsBZDretT5gHW_zhBeb

@laymelow

He does.... love this one reminds me of my little brother that took his life!! I could listen to it all night!!

@WonsPhreely

laymelow I’m sad to hear that your brother didn’t make it. Im sure he has found peace.

@martystamey69

To bad he didn't write it

@realtraveller6847

@Trevor Rogers r.i.p to your brother

@EmbreeWalkerII

Bruce at his best - telling a story of an American family, torn not of love but right and wrong.

@WonsPhreely

I agree, the story telling is exquisite. Watching this or just listening to this always makes me tear up. I write songs now, and Bruce is always the bench mark, here's me attempting story telling in song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b85V2p4puw&index=2&t=0s&list=PLWehun4PmMf_00nsBZDretT5gHW_zhBeb

@rustyshackleford9115

Well said.

@brettscott8288

I remember a student from William and Mary coming to my elementary school in the very early '80s playing one of Nebraska's songs (I forgot which, maybe Atlantic City) Then a classmate of mine was next and played some hard rock. His name is Mark Morton, who's currently playing with Lamb of God.

@CareyHilgartner

The song is simple: an acoustic guitar and a melancholy voice. Yet, the song is deep in emotion, tragically nostalgic.  Yet the song is layered in themes, with brotherly loyalty played out in the face of a moral choice.

@mikemcnair2026

Carey Hilgartner I think Bruce recorded this whole album in a hotel bathroom with just a four track.

@anelladambrosio2513

Questa canzone e cosi emozionante... Come pure il video... 😊😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘❤️💯💋🌅

@davidpage968

bruce is such a poetic profound brilliant songwriter and artist that made many of masterpieces

@robbratcherii

Just discovered this album yesterday. Incredible.

@briancarter1972

More proof that Bruce is an American treasure as our only living true American Poet laureate….

@ekimp252

Bruce frequently included 3 songs from Nebraska in the opening set on the Born In The USA tour. Between his official releases and some very good boots we can experience the brilliance of Highway Patrolman. The August 20, 1982 version is particularly poignant.

@danielmaksimovic1539

This song just calms me down. I feel like it lowers my heartbeats whenever I'm mad.

@daniellefrack8756

Très belle chanson ❤

@AndrewSwinney

Formidable

@TuckerStrategy

favorite springsteen song of all time....great album

@Bigbitboom

Quanto è vera sta canzone, il testo è profondo ed emoziona e con le immagini del film tutto è più bello. Liriche così belle Bruce ora se lo sogna, questa come l'album è un capolavoro! Bisogna accontentarci di dischi ora mediocri ....

@lordbryan76

Such a beautiful song by an amazing artist. Love is powerful especially for family. Good or bad, you will always be loved

@laymelow

Beautiful song Bruce.... for my lil brother R I P my friend

@MattSmith-iq1ld

This song has so much depth. The commitment to one's family, or the commitment to one's community. It's a tough decision. Patrolman Joe Roberts was placed into a horrible position of being forced to make this decision based on his job description. It's also one of the first songs ever written to graphically talk about a Vietnam Vet struggling w/PTSD issues. Also a song that talked how farmers were struggling at the time (Bruce writes about that issue brilliantly in the "Born In The USA" outtake "Sugarland"). I just love the way the song starts: "My name is Joe Roberts; I work for the state; I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville; Barracks Number 8; I always done an honest job; As honest as I could; I got a brother named Frankie; and Frankie ain't no good." It sounds like a guy introducing himself to you in a crowded bar and telling you his story. What's also key is the Steinbeck-like working class use of language throughout the song. It won't make the English teacher happy, but it's real.

@brandonTopchev

Idk why but This always saddens the hell out of me

@dorkified9

+Brandon topchev I know what you mean! The story, the song, the video are all so heartbreaking.

@danieledwards1320

+Brando Moto I know why. It's the saddest goddamn song there ever was.

@storkdance

+Infamous_brap topchev

Because death knocked at the door maybe

@tomt6142

probably because it's sad

@hilldwler420

Cause everybody's got a brother named Frankie....

@cyrusumberger5285

Loved this song by Johnny cash, was amazed when I read the album cover and found out my favorite artist Bruce had wrote it!!👌👌

@katherinebrennan5695

Thank you, whoever you may be. I had never heard this song before (thought I'd heard them all). Just flat out beautiful.

@stevenbentley310

I was just going to "Like" this, but...I hit reply, instead. I don't know why. Maybe just to reach out, tell you, whoever you are, Katherine, that, yes, it is beautiful, and sad.

@hilldwler420

i got a brother like Frankie. ill never understand the pain he feels....

@lekkki1

Can you understand the pain he inflicts on others though?
Sorry for your struggle.

@davidleedutton

I can see why Sean Penn would want to make a feature film of this, but the song tells the whole story so beautifully.

@MiguelPerescorpio1982

This music viedo alone is a mini-movie with a perfect soundtrack <3

@arthurmatthews9321

Anyone who has a brother will instantly understand this song

@emmanuelnguematchagrassfie1441

Bruce is an unchained symbol of Freedom to say things through melodies that people put off all kind of chains...

@arthurmarkos5522

Always thought among best by Springsteen. Still is.
But then i found Johnny Cash version, whew!

@januschpiskor5436

Jp moin This is Wonderful Song klasse gesungen und gespielt sehr romantisch. One of my Favorite Songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍🫂💘 Saluto good for You. Servus Pa aus Brema 🌋 🌄 🌋

@davidheffernan6635

I have a massive man-crush on David Morse. Himself and Viggo playing the protagonists in the movie was just perfect. Nebraska really really is a neglected masterpiece.

@aknifeaforkabottleandacork3856

David Heffernan
GAY

@danieljones674

What movie is this?

@charliesmodels647

Daniel Jones the Indian Runner

@mrinvader

i THOUGHT that was David Morse !!!!!

@sauquoit13456

'Dancin' with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood’…
On this day in 1889 {May 31st} the South Fork Dam collapsed, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania...

@serenkoshire656

I just came from the illumination for the 130th anniversary of the flood...its indescribable

@johndrews206

Lily Braden: What's the story on that dog?

Reggie Dunlop: That's the dog that saved Charleston from the 1938 flood.

Lily Braden: Well fuck him

@olgalopezprat7260

Sólo su voz, bajo ese cielo de nubarrones lleno..
Y él.... verbigracia....no se olvida de seguir en la cresta de su voz.....💗💗💗💗💗💗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 Un abrazo 🤗🌹🌹

@danastrommen3733

My teacher played this today man I love it 10 out 10

@AlecDavid007

Holy shit. What a story. What a song.

@annajohnson4147

Nebraska was a true work of art.

@joaotomasmagrogomes2971

Thank you, King, bigger than boss

@redcellardoor1031

I actually fell in love with Sean Penn's 1991 directorial debut film, "The Indian Runner" before I heard this song.
It wasn't until many years later that I actually listened to this song and put it all together.

@kapple654

yeah Sean penn is as great a writer as he is director actor and aid worker. love the man!

@kapple654

see the pledge and into the wild too!

@redcellardoor1031

@K Apple I've seen both. Loved Both. "Into the Wild" is a crazy rabbit hole I frequently go into with various Sean Penn, Eddie Vedder and related archival interviews.

@kapple654

@Stephen Demmer yes so agree - love Eddie Vedder and penn together. also loved the collaboration with those two on 'Dead man Walking' with Nusfat Fatah Ali Khan! amazing theme song. couldn't be more relevant now - with the spate of executions in the USA as well as other countries around the world in the last 3 months!!!!!!

@redcellardoor1031

@@kapple654 There is a fantastic Charlie Rose interview with Eddie Vedder and Sean Penn about "Into The Wild".
https://youtu.be/c5xeDNQFCFY?si=0gGH39jQprEE6yee

@timwhite5562

Huh. You know, I'm watching this video because I listened to this album today for the first time in at least a decade. Honestly, I don't know if this was the original video (though there would have to be a period of several years that separate the album from this movie judging by the ages of the actors), I've only ever hear the song from the album, I don't think I've ever even heard it over the radio.
Listing to the lyrics it struck my how this song is completely a product of a different time that is almost an era that seems as far as any before it.
Just the story being told doesn't sound like something could have been told it yesterday, it has a completely different sensibility. I envision something that looks quite similar to the scenes from whatever movie this is; the late 70s LTD police cars, CB radios, pull tab beer cans and pay phones everywhere (with rotary dial). Even the fact that throughout the song, the narrator never mentions his own name. You know that name of his brother and wife, but he remains anonymous, as if he's irrelevant to the story.
I'd think that would be the first thing that would be completely different from now. How could remaining unnamed help further your personal brand?
Not to mention the fact that the song humanizes a cop, so it would be judged as hate speech or something just as equally absurd .

@doofus0123

This song introduced me to the Johnstown flood. Way back in the 1980s i think. On cassette, I checked the album out from the library. One of my favorites. Several years ago, I watched a documentary video about the Johnstown flood. More recently, within the last week or so, I was at the public library looking through nonfiction audio books and I found one about the Johnstown flood. What an incredible terrible event. There are several songs out here on YouTube titled, night of the Johnstown flood! I listened to them all, there is one that talks about Marie or Maria, and I think that they based it on this Bruce Springsteen song, or maybe that was a recording of some original night of the Johnstown flood song done more recently, upon which Bruce Springsteen based this flying from this song, I'm not sure. I do want to research it though.

@doofus0123

Apparently the song Springsteen mentions is fictitious (it was back in the early 80s, anyway), but there are a few out there by that title (likely more recent than 1982). This version is reminiscent of "Highway Patrolman". By Nolan Patton -->>
https://youtu.be/EKbzELI0uKA?si=LnR18CuZ580wQsdS

@deirdreprewette6505

One of his best songs❤

@RobertJohnM

From the movie "The Indian Runner" well,...................more they wrote and made the movie from this brilliant track.How often does that happen? and only 190K hits.How come?

@xlhsxl8844

My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville Barracks Number 8
I always done an honest job—as honest as I could
I got a brother named Frankie, and Frankie ain't no good
Now, ever since we was young kids, it's been the same comedown
I get a call on the shortwave: Frankie's in trouble downtown
Well, if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother, sometimes, you look the other way

Me and Frankie laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood
Taking turns dancing with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's straying, like any brother would
A man turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good

Well, Frankie went in the army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on dropping 'til it was like we were getting robbed
Frankie came home in '68, and me, I took this job

Yeah, we're laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood
Taking turns dancing with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's straying, teach him how to walk that line
A man turns his back on his family, he ain't no friend of mine

Well, the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lying on the floor, looking bad, bleeding hard from his head
There was a girl crying at a table, and it was Frank, they said
Well, I went out and I jumped in my car, and I hit the lights
Well, I must've done one hundred and ten through Michigan County that night
It was out at the crossroads, down 'round Willow Bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates; behind the wheel was Frank
Well, I chased him through them county roads
'Til a sign said "Canadian border, five miles from here"
I pulled over on the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear

Me and Frankie laughing and drinking, nothing feels better than blood on blood
Taking turns dancing with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's straying, like any brother would
A man turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good

@mikeythebrave

Nebraska is still one of my fave Bruce lp's

@toddwilliams6

I live in Johnstown..... born and raised and never left....... real people......

@Creativetoursflorida

Great American musical poet! Great song.

@laymelow

Reminds me of my lil brother that took his life....... Frankie just ain’t no good

@wontletyoufly3520

one of my favourite Springsteen songs, tells a great story

@tripgreat

This video helps tell the story of the song, rather than distracting from it. Love it1 Viggo and Morse! A-list film acting.

@dcjicha

I echo the line quoted from hilldwler 420 below: man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good... I've used the phrase in my household before. God bless America.

@peppersdog1

NEBRASKA......a legend of an album

@MadMan731

Damn that song hits me in the feels every time.

@zaxmack

Saw the movie 20 years ago.. it's such a classic song and underrated movie

@alice1blue

thats right when it ur brother...u look the other way. I love this movie & song. May my 2 brothers rest in peace.

@latriciathomas6870

This song sounds like the cross between a ballad and the blues,I like it.

@douglaskelly6147

This song reminds me of my brother, except he was the one with his shit together and I finding myself.
It always put a strain on us and sadly we never had a real relationship up to his death to my eternal regret.

@joycebunn6045

Very interesting love it great life story ❤❤❤❤❤

@karenkillian3893

I love Bruce Springsteen I listen to him all my life I think he's the best of anyone in the world is 100% in the USA God bless

@bart2969

Great song, a hidden gem on Nebraska

@rl8403

I heard this for the first time the other night n it hit me like a ton of bricks I got a brother like frankie 2 n I am truly my brothers keeper

@MrUnidyne

The visuals are taken from Sean Penn's film "The Indian Runner", which was based on the lyrics of this song. I've read nothing but praise for the film, yet it tanked at the box office. Perhaps the use of clips from the film will help the home video sales and on-line rentals.

@shaneogden3622

Puzzles me how it tanked at the box office. One of my favourite movies. Might have had something to do with the fact that the actors weren't very well known. But now look at them. If anything, this movie was a stepping stone to their careers.

@jomcmenamin4579

One brother took all from the other brother; took his job , his girl ; he owed him

@JohnPatterson-kz8jr

Very touching song.

@jasonodaniel3927

I cry Everytime I listen to this song 😭

@donaldwalbruck5456

Dead man walking... great song by Bruce.. movie Sean Penn Susan Sarandon

@davidvango4426

Bruce a master song writer the lyics tell such stories, it ceates movies in your head.

@karfux6902

...But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way...